一切經音義 96.94

English (machine translation) 96.94

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96.94

壇墠 [tánshàn, altars and cleared grounds] (The first character has the fanqie 堂丹 [táng + dān]; the second has the fanqie 蟬闡 [chán + chǎn]. Kong's commentary on the Shangshu says: 'Piling up earth forms a tán; clearing the ground forms a shàn.' The Shuowen says: 'A tán is a sacrificial arena; a shàn is an open cleared field.' Both characters take 土 as semantic, and 亶 and 單 are their phonetics. Future instances should follow this).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese